International Migration | Geography Lessons, Slides & Workbooks

Help students explain why people move between countries and assess the effects on migrants, origins and destinations.

This module uses migrant stories alongside geographical concepts to explore migration types, push and pull factors, barriers, impacts and management. Students learn to support an explanation with evidence from a particular situation.

Learning covered

• Distinguish different types of international migration.
• Explain push and pull factors.
• Identify barriers and challenges faced by migrants.
• Compare impacts on migrants and on origin and destination countries.
• Explain approaches to managing migration.

Teaching options and materials

Choose between the tiered Full Lesson presentation and the focused Essentials presentation, which includes detailed teacher notes. The Full Lesson workbook is supplied in colour, black and white and an online-labelled Word version. The Essentials Booklet includes completed and student-notes versions, with black-and-white alternatives.

Also included are a separate exam practice pack, mark scheme, short assessment and START HERE guide.

The Migration Case File

Teams investigate one of four migrant stories. They assemble a case file covering migration type, push and pull factors, barriers and impacts, then decide which factors mattered most. Every claim must come from the story. Students share their findings and reconsider their verdict when an additional piece of evidence is introduced.

The collaborative activity includes its own presentation and printable pack.

Designed for ages 14–16 and Cambridge IGCSE Geography 0460 population topics for the 2027 course. Supplied as editable PowerPoint and Word files, plus a PDF guide. Illustrations are embedded images. Online-labelled versions are documents rather than hosted activities.

Module 6 of the Geography Oasis Population unit; available to teach separately or as part of the seven-module unit.

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